On the third day after the 16th round of Serie A tie with Parma, Fiorentina, who have recently suffered from a lack of attack, finally had good news: the team's top scorer Batistuta has returned to Fiorentina after the Fahd Copa League to prepare for the match against AC Milan at the weekend.

AC Milan have played exceptionally poorly in Serie A this season, so far, Capello's team has won 5 wins, 7 draws and 4 losses in 16 league games, accumulating 22 points, only sixth in Serie A, 15 points away from Juventus at the top of the table, and can basically announce their withdrawal from the league title race this season.

Fiorentina, on the other hand, have a full squad and high morale after welcoming back Batistuta, who have been in excellent form this season, and the fans are confident that the team will be able to win away from AC Milan, who have been in poor form recently.

But as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and there are three pounds of nails in a broken boat, no matter how down-and-out AC Milan is this season, it is also the super giants who swept Europe last season, and their head coach is still the resourceful Capello.

As Zhuang Mingge expected, after more than half a year of adjustment by Capello, the spirit of AC Milan's players is slowly recovering, and the residual impact of the American Shijie Cup is gradually dissipating.

At the beginning of the game, the Milanese took advantage of the home advantage to attack Fiorentina from two wings, whether it was Maldini on the left or Panucci on the right, they can be called good at attacking and defending, plus a left-right tiger Donadoni, but from the configuration of the wings,

AC Milan clearly have the upper hand.

Originally, AC Milan's tactics last season were very dull, otherwise they would not have been able to create such a record as "the Serie A champion with the fewest goals". Although their lightning-fast counter-attacks were quite pleasing to watch, after all, it was only part of the game, and most of the time they recycled and kept shrinking their defence in the half and then took the opportunity to counter-attack.

But from this season, Massaro, who was in great form before, suddenly couldn't find the crosshairs to shoot, and Costacuta, as the main central defender, has declined sharply, especially the newly introduced striker Di Canio has not played as expected, so that the conservative Capello has to change his style and make the team play more actively - now Milan's player configuration is indeed more suitable for positional battles rather than defensive counterattacks.

Milan's attacking core has changed from last season's Savicevic to this season's Boban, and the 26-year-old Croatia international is at the peak of his career, with a mix of attacking and defensiveness, and AC Milan's attack is largely driven by him.

Claudio Ranieri did a good job of pre-match homework, whenever Boban got the ball, Kripa immediately rushed over to interfere with him, and the coach gave him a very important task in this game, which was to prevent Boban as much as possible and not let him easily organize the attack.

Ranieri's tactics were quite effective, and Milan had several attacking chances, all of which disappeared in such entanglements.

In the 30th minute of the game, Boban received another pass from Albertini.

However, this time Boban was smart, and when he saw Cripa rushing up, he didn't dwell too much with his opponent, and immediately passed the ball to Marco Simeone in front of him.

With Van Basten and Lentini seriously injured, and Massaro and Papan in a slump of form, Marco Simeone has become the Rossoneri's main scorer this season, and his aura and attacking ability have brought enough energy to Milan's ageing frontline, and his presence is one of the reasons why AC Milan have maintained a top-six finish in the league this season.

Seeing Simeone take the ball, Di Biagio immediately rushed up, but he didn't expect Simeone's flexibility to be much better than himself, although Di Biagio is famous in Italian football for his fierce defense and large range of movement, he was still made to lose his center of gravity by Simeone's feints, only to see Simeone take advantage of the situation, and rushed past Di Biagio's side!

Although Di Biagio was passed by Simeone, but his reaction speed was good, he immediately turned around, and constantly rushed Simeone from the side and back - in terms of physical fitness, Di Biagio has an absolute advantage, although he has been left behind by the opponent at this time, he can still interfere with the opponent.

Seeing that Fiorentina's defense was not in disarray, and the tall midfielder behind him was constantly interfering with him, Simeone did not force the ball - he was not a brute player, but directly raised his foot and passed the ball to Donadoni who was inserted from the left!

Donadoni immediately started a speed competition with Billindeli, to say that Donadoni at his peak can complete Billindeli, but now he is not young, and the decline in physical fitness is inevitable, so even if Donadoni sprints hard, he was still grabbed the ball first by Billindeley, and Milan's next offensive opportunity was easily destroyed by Fiorentina.

"AC Milan is still old after all......" Sitting in the box at the San Siro Stadium, Zhuang Mingge sighed.

"yes, who would have thought that Milan, which could have kept the whole of Europe helpless last season, would decline to this point after just one summer?" Karin also sighed at Milan's slip on the side.

As he spoke, the trend of the game on the field also changed from AC Milan at the beginning to take the initiative to attack, Fiorentina was forced to defend and gradually reversed, and the Milan players who were too physically exhausted at the beginning of the game had to shrink their defense.

Although AC Milan is also constantly using counterattacks to contain Fiorentina's attack, but except for Simeone, Milan has no counterattack masters on the field, so Fiorentina's attack shows no signs of slowing down, in addition to the continuous back and forth rapid passing in the midfield to try to open up space to create opportunities, several excellent Fiorentina players often come to a forced breakthrough at every opportunity, intending to use their individual ability to roll out a path!

There aren't many Fiorentina players with this ability, but it's not a few, Djokaeff is one, Effenberg is one, and Batistuta is too. Although the Argentine's little jishu is not very delicate, his physical fitness guarantees the success rate of the breakthrough.

In the 44th minute, Barty, who had just pulled to the outside of the penalty area, received a pass from Effenberg, and then the Argentine god of war used his strong body to suppress Costacuta, who was defending him, with a buckle of his right foot, quickly completed the turn, and shot directly before Baresi rushed over to help defend, and the ball flew into the gate guarded by Rossi.

“Gooooooal！ Batistuta! The goal was scored by Batistuta!! The Argentine warrior used his 20th league goal of the season to give Fiorentina a 1-0 lead over AC Milan on the road!! ”